Israel has about 200 nukes according to US and Israeli sources.
"I worked from 1976 to 1985 at the Israeli secret underground nuclear weapons production facility at the Dimona nuclear plant in the Negev
desert. During my time there, I was involved in processing plutonium for 10 nuclear bombs per year. I realized that my country had already processed
enough plutonium for 200 nuclear weapons. I became really afraid when we started processing Lithium 6 which is only used for the hydrogen bomb. I felt
that I had to prevent a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East so I took 60 pictures of the underground nuclear weapons processing plant some 75 meters
under the Dimona plant. I resigned my post and left Israel in 1986. I first went to Australia and then made a connection with the Times in London.
After a group of nuclear scientists verified my photos as proving Israeli nuclear weapons production, my story was published in England. A few months
later, I was kidnapped by the Israelis in Rome and sent secretly by ship to Israel where I was subjected to a closed military trial without counsel. I
was sentenced to 18 years in prison. I spent 12 years in solitary confinement.
Now I am trapped inside Israel and I’m being threatened with more prison time for speaking to people like you. I want to leave Israel and come to
America where I can live as a free human being.”
-Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli nuclear technician who is still a prisoner in Israel and is not
allowed to leave the country.
Israel has also refused to sign the Nuclear Non proliferation treaty. That fact alone makes it illegal for the US to offer any funding to Israel.
Under the 1976 Symington Amendment to the Foreign Apprpriations Bill of 1961, the United States is forbidden to give ANY financial aid to nations
developing nuclear technology outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel has never signed the NNPT, which is why President Obama did the
"Potomac Two-Step" when Helen Thomas asked him directly what nations in the Middle East currently have nuclear weapons.
It is interesting to see Israel trying to scare the world with lies about Irans nuclear threat, even though Iran does not have any weapons grade
materials, while Israel is the ONLY nuclear threat in the region.